GARDEN IMPLEMENTS. 



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3. Instruments for Designating, Watering, etc, 



Tallies. — Those for common use, to last a single sea- 

 son, are most readily prepared from the white pine of 

 which most dry-goods boxes are made. The wood is very 

 soft. For marking trees or grafts, a small tally, 'three- 

 quarters of an inch wide by three inches long, notched at 

 one end for attaching the wire, is commonly used. 

 The name of the variety should be marked on it with 

 a lead pencil, immediately after the tally has been 

 brushed over with a thin coat of white 

 lead. If marked while the paint is wet, 

 it can be read as long as the tally lasts ; 

 otherwise it will soon be effaced. 



Another kind is made, about six or 

 eight inches long by an inch wide, of the 

 same material, and marked in the same 

 manner, to be stuck in the beds of flowers 

 and vegetables, to mark the different 

 varieties. Zinc labels are very durable. 

 They may be cut in any desired shape 

 out of sheet zinc. Write on it with an 

 ink made of two parts fine verdigris, two 

 sal ammoniac, one lampblack. After this 

 is made fine in a mortar," add twenty 

 parts water; bottle and shake it oc-" 

 casionally some days before using. It 

 will keep for years, if the bottle is kept 

 cork downward, to prevent the ammonia 

 from escaping. The labels should be 

 fastened to the limbs with a stout wire. Orchards should 

 be mapped, that the names maybe ascertained should the 

 tallies get lost or become effaced. 



Folding-Ladders are very convenient in gathering 

 fruit. The rounds are fastened by pivots at the ends on 

 which they turn, and when the ladder is' folded up, they 

 lie in grooves made in the side-pieces. Figure 31 shows 

 the ladder both open and closed. 



31. — FOLDING 

 LADDER. 



